20 Letters to a Friend
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256pp. Tan cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine, in laminated pictorial dust jacket (a little chipped at edges, 3/4 inch closed tear on rear, crease on inner flap). Pen mark on front endpaper. Bright, crisp and clean, square and firmly bound. This is the only full, authentic text giving an account of a childhood spent in the Kremlin, written by Stalin's daughter in 1963, smuggled to India and then retrieved by the author when she left Russia in 1967. Translated from Russian to English by Priscilla Johnson.